But it was just an ill-considered, spur-of-the-moment outburst, right? Well, maybe, Nicholls half-clarified afterwards.

The off-the-cuff remark during a heated debate over the new sex education curriculum landed Nicholls (Chatham-Kent-Essex) in hot water with Conservative colleagues and left him ridiculed by others. … But Nicholls stood by his line when asked about it Wednesday. “For myself, I don’t believe in evolution,” Nicholls told reporters.

I still have to hand it to our neighbors Up North: A guy like Nicholls can make an actual political spectacle of himself by declaring that he doesn’t think evolution is real. In American politics, they call that “Wednesday,” or any other day of the week ending in Y.

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